"it's called 10 riyal. This might be because Kelantan is an ""Islamic state"" on which the administration of the state is mostly by ulama. The Russian language has slang terms for various amounts of money. Slang names of copeck coins derive from old Russian pre-decimal coins and are rarely in use today: an ""altyn"" is three copecks, a ""grivennik"" is ten copecks, a ""pyatialtynny"" (""five-altyns"") is fifteen copecks, and a ""dvugrivenny"" (""two-grivenniks"") is 20 copecks. Most of these coins are of Soviet mint and no longer used; only the ten copeck coin remains in circulation. The word ""chervonets"" means ten"
"to an amount of R1,000,000. Among the English speaking communities ""Bucks"" is commonly used to refer to Rands (South African Currency). Less commonly used is the Afrikaans slang for Rands which is ""Bokke"", the plural of Bok; The Afrikaans word for antelope (""Bucks"" being the English equivalent), derived from the Springbok image on the R 1 coin. e.g. R 100 = 100 Bucks/Bokke, R 5 = 5 Bucks/Bokke etc. In Sweden money in general is colloquially referred to by the words ""stålar"", ""deg"" (""dough"") or ""klöver"" (""clover"") and the English loanword ""cash"". Slang terms for the Swedish krona in use"
"slang for one, sun and son. 'Penny bun' is also the common English name for the cep (French), or ""Boletus edulis"", an edible basidiomycete mushroom. Native to Europe and North America, it is Europe's second most sought-after fungus after truffles. 'Cockle to a penny bun' is British slang for racing odds of 10 to 1. Penny bun A penny bun or a penny loaf was a small bread bun or loaf which cost one old penny at the time when there were 240 pence to the pound. A penny loaf was a common size loaf of bread in England regulated"
"""bar"", ""coin"", ""folding stuff"", ""honk"", ""lolly"", ""lucre""/""filthy ""Lucre"", ""moola/moolah"", ""paper"", ""scratch"", ""readies"", ""spondulicks/spondoolic(k)s/spondulix/spondoolies"", and ""wonga"". ""Quid"" (singular and plural) is used for pound sterling or £, in British slang. It is thought to derive from the Latin phrase ""quid pro quo"". A pound (£1) may also be referred to as a ""nicker"" or ""nugget"" (rarer). Some other pre-decimalisation United Kingdom coins or denominations became commonly known by colloquial and slang terms, perhaps the most well known being ""bob"" for a shilling. A farthing was a ""mag"", a silver threepence was a ""joey"", and the later nickel-brass threepence was called a"
"used such slang and the only way to raise that amount of money would have been to mortgage the house. 500 pounds would have been about the average value of a London house at the time the term originated in the early 20th century according to the CPBS mortgage registers 1919-1922. However the true origin of these terms is uncertain. Another money slang word, """", which means £1, is thought to be connected to the American """". """", which describes an unspecified amount of money, may come from the Romany word for coal, ""wanga"". In 2005, Professor Sue Fox from"
"(""piece"") or ""kosar'"" (""mower""). Slang words for greater amounts of money originate from the 1990s and the Russian Civil War eras, when the ruble was suffering hyperinflation. The most common are ""limon"" (lemon) for a million rubles and ""arbuz"" (watermelon) for a billion rubles. South African slang for various amounts of money borrows many terms from the rest of the English speaking world, such as the word ""grand"" when referring to R1,000. Other words are unique to South Africa, such as the term ""choc"" when referring to a R20 note. The slang word for money is 'kroon'. One ""bar"" refers"
"is often dropped when it is clear from context. E.g. ""He made three quid last year"" would mean ""He earned three million pounds"". ""They manage a hundred bucks"" means that they have assets of a hundred million US dollars. General terms include bucks, dough, bread, moolah, cheddar, paper, stash, Benjamin, Benji, loot, smackers, and simoleons. Outdated or rarely used terms include: bones, tamales, scratch, cheese, guap, lettuce, salad, scrilla, scrill, chips, cake, ducats, spondulix, and cabbage. The dollar has also been referred to as a ""bean"" or ""bone"" (e.g. twenty bones is equal to $20). U.S. coinage nicknames reflect their"
"usually be said ""one-and-six"". ""Quid"" remains as popular slang for one or more pounds to this day in Britain in the form ""a quid"" and then ""two quid"", and so on. Similarly, in some parts of the country, ""bob"" continued to represent one-twentieth of a pound, that is five new pence, and ""two bob"" is 10p. The introduction of decimal currency caused a new casual usage to emerge, where any value in pence is spoken using the suffix ""pee"": e.g. ""twenty-three pee"" or, in the early years, ""two-and-a-half pee"" rather than the previous ""tuppence-ha'penny"". Amounts over a pound are normally"
"Bodle A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny, first issued under Charles II. They were minted until the coronation of Anne. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master). It is mentioned in one of the songs of Joanna Baillie: <poem> Black Madge, she is prudent, has sense in her noddle Is douce and respectit; I carena a bodle. </poem> The use of the word survives in the anglicised phrase ""not to care a bodle"","
"referred to as a ""bag"" (from the rhyming slang ""Bag of Sand""), e.g., £4,000 would be called 4 bags. A ""oner"" (one-er) has referred to various amounts from one shilling to a pound, to now meaning £100 or £1,000, and a ""big one"" denoting £1,000. A ""oncer"" referred particularly to a one-pound note, now defunct. It is also fairly common now in the UK to count backwards from these large denominations using the word ""down"", e.g. £380 might be ""four ton, 20 down"" in UK slang. Other rhyming slang expressions for particular quantities of money in the United Kingdom include:"
"phrase is (); in financial terms, where integer values in cents exist, e.g., HK$6.75, the phrase is (; fives in cents is normally expressed as “half”, unless followed by another five, such as 55 cents when preceded by a dollar value); $7.08 is (). In Hong Kong, the following are slang terms used to refer to various amounts of money: Some of these terms are also used by overseas Chinese to refer their local currency. A slang term in English sometimes used for the Hong Kong dollar is ""Honkie"". In 1863, 1-mil (-cent), 1-cent and 10-cent coins were introduced, followed"
"Spondulix Spondulix is 19th-century slang for money or cash, more specifically a reasonable amount of spending money. Spondulicks, spondoolicks, spondulacks, spondulics, and spondoolics are alternative spellings, and spondoolies is a modern variant. There are two views on the origin of the word. The most likely is from the Greek ""spondulox"", which refers to a type of seashell from bivalves of the genus ""Spondylus"". The ""Spondylus"" shell was used as neolithic jewelry and also as an early form of currency. There is global evidence of the importance of the spondylus shell. Archaeological evidence shows that people in Europe were trading the"
"at Matins on the 25th of the month. The 25th March was also the date on which debts were traditionally settled, on which date one would have to ""pony up"" or ""pony out"". It is easy to see how slang for a payment on the 25th could develop into a payment of 25 pounds The term ""monkey"" originally meant a mortgage in working class slang across large parts of the UK. A ""monkey on the house"" or simply a ""monkey"" was a mortgage. At that time 500 pounds was a huge sum of money to the poor people who predominantly"
"tool, a spinner's weasel used for measuring in spinning, a piece of silver plate, or that 'weasel and stoat' is Cockney rhyming slang for ""throat"", as in ""Get that down yer Weasel"" meaning to eat or drink something. An alternative meaning which fits better with the theme of ""that's the way the money goes"" involves pawning one's coat in desperation to buy food and drink, as ""weasel (and stoat)"" is more usually and traditionally Cockney rhyming slang for ""Coat"" rather than throat and ""pop"" is a slang word for ""pawn"". ""Pop goes the weasel"" meant pawning a coat. Decent coats"
"pronounce the new coins as ""pee"". Shortenings such as ""tuppence"" are now rarely heard, and terms such as ""tanner"" (the silver sixpence), which previously designated amounts of money, are no longer used. However, some slang terms, such as ""quid"" and ""bob"", survived from pre-decimal times. Amounts denominated in guineas (21s or £1.05) are reserved for specialist transactions, such as the sale of horses and some auctions. The public information campaign over the preceding two years helped, as did the trick of getting a rough conversion of new pence into old shillings and pence by simply doubling the number of new"
"A study conducted in England in the early 1980s showed a correlation between the consumption of cockles, presumed to be incorrectly processed, and an elevated local occurrence of hepatitis. Cockles are an effective bait for a wide variety of sea fishes. The folk song ""Molly Malone"" is also known as ""Cockles and Mussels"" because the title character's sale of the two foods is referred to in the song's refrain. The shells of cockles are mentioned in the English nursery rhyme ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"". Cockles are also eaten by the indigenous peoples of North America. The common English phrase ""it"
"""threepenny bit"" (, or ); a sixpence was a ""tanner"", the two-shilling coin or florin was a ""two-bob bit"", the two shillings and sixpence coin or half-crown was a ""half dollar"" and the crown was a ""dollar"". Slang terms are not generally used for the decimal coins that replaced them but in some parts of the country, ""bob"" continues to represent one-twentieth of a pound, that is five new pence, and two bob is 10p. For all denominations ""p"" is used for pence. In the United Kingdom the term ""shrapnel"" may be used for an inconvenient pocketful of loose change"
"Mumbai and in Bollywood movies) are 'peti' for a Lakh (Rs. 100,000) and 'khokha' for a Crore (Rs. 10,000,000.) and 'tijori' for 100 crores (Rs. 1,000,000,000.) Peti also means suitcase, which is the volume needed to carry a Lakh of currency notes. Tijori means a large safe or a cupboard, which would be the approximate space required to store that money in cash form. Due to the real estate boom in recent times, businessmen also use the terms '2CR' or '3CR' referring to two crores and three crores respectively. In Kenya there are about 42 different languages, which have different"
"or a ""Borden"" (after its portrait of Prime Minister Robert Borden). $100.00 is also called an ""onion"" in gambling corners. Since Canadians and Americans both refer to their respective currencies as ""the dollar,"" and because the two countries tend to mingle both socially and in the media, there is a lot of overlap in slang terms for money. However, this usually only extends to terms that are not specific to one country or the other. For example, both Canadians and Americans refer to a $100 note as a ""C-note"", but an American might refer to it as a ""Benjamin"", after"
"spine to piled coins; thus ""Spondulics - coin piled for counting..."". The earliest recorded occurrence of the word as slang for money appears to have been in the late 19th century in the United States. The New Oxford Dictionary of English marks the origin as US slang. However, according to the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, the term can be traced back to the mid-19th century in England. Other sources also suggest a mid-19th-century origin. The July 1852 edition of the ""Water-Cure Journal"" includes ""Gossip from Indiana"" by ""a Hoosier"" which complains about ""spending our spondulix."" In Meister Karl's Sketch-Book (1855),"
"conditions are not carefully watched. In England and Wales, people are permitted to collect 5 kg of cockles for personal use. However, pickers wishing to collect more than this are deemed to be engaging in commercial fishing and are required to obtain a permit from the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. Cockles are a street food in Cambodia. Cockles are sold freshly cooked as a snack in the United Kingdom, particularly in those parts of the British coastline where cockles are abundant. Boiled, then seasoned with malt vinegar and white pepper, they can be bought from seafood stalls, which also"
"British word lists. Dollar sign The dollar sign ($ or ) is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various units of currency around the world. The symbol can interchangeably have one or two vertical strokes. In common usage, the sign appears to the left of the amount specified, as in $1 (read: one dollar). A common hypothesis holds that the sign derives from the symbolic representation of the Pillars of Hercules – this representation can either have a banner separately around each pillar, or as in the Spanish coat of arms, a banner curling between them. In 1492, Ferdinand"
"in 2016), and ""bullseye"" for £50 (from the points value of the bullseye on a darts board) . £5 is called a ""fiver"". A ""tenner"" is £10. A ""Darwin"" also refers to a £10 note, due to the image of Charles Darwin on the back. £20 is commonly referred to as a “score”. A ""pony"" equals £25. A ""bullseye"" is £50. £100 is commonly referred to as a ""ton"" e.g. £400 would be called 4 ton. Also, a ""century"" or a ""bill"" are also used as £100 (e.g. £300 would be three bills). A ""monkey"" is £500. £1,000 is commonly"
"corrupt system in order to pass the winter in Michigan, staying a series of different jails. Here, with his fellow tramps, Davies would enjoy the relative comfort of ""card-playing, singing, smoking, reading, relating experiences and occasionally taking exercise or going out for a walk."" Boodle Boodle is a slang term for money derived from the Dutch word 'boedel' meaning property or estate. Afrikaans inherited the word and its meaning from the Dutch, which probably accounts for its widespread use for money amongst English-speaking South Africans. In a different context, ""boodle jails"" were jails in the United States, predominantly during the"
"Crore A crore (; abbreviated cr) or kodi denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 10 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 ""lakh"" in the Indian numbering system as 1,00,00,000 with the local style of digit group separators (a ""lakh"" is equal to one hundred thousand and is written as 1,00,000). Large amounts of money in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal are often written in terms of ""crores"". For example, 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) is written as 'fifteen ""crore"" rupees', '15crore' or 'Rs 15 crore'. Trillions (in the short scale) of money are often written or spoken of"
"was twelve pence. Thus, fifteen shillings is 180 pence. It would take 60 hours to earn 180 at a rate of three pence per hour. In terms of 2015 purchasing power, this would be approximately £63.00 or about $94 US per week. Seven members of Cratchit's family are mentioned in the original story, four of whom are named: [[Category:Male characters in literature] Bob Cratchit Bob Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel ""A Christmas Carol"". The abused, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge (and possibly Jacob Marley, when he was still alive), Cratchit has come to symbolize poor"
"money amount of 21 shillings (1.05 pounds sterling) for which no coin any longer existed, but the common denomination for solely upper-class transactions (e.g., purchase of pictures or race-horses, lawyers' or medical specialists' fees, and so on.) The epistolary format also gives the reader the sense of eavesdropping on a private conversation. We listen in on Woolf's suggestions to a barrister on how to prevent war, to a women's league on how to support females in the professions, and to a women's college on how to encourage female scholarship. All three sources have written to Woolf asking for financial donations."
"Boodle Boodle is a slang term for money derived from the Dutch word 'boedel' meaning property or estate. Afrikaans inherited the word and its meaning from the Dutch, which probably accounts for its widespread use for money amongst English-speaking South Africans. In a different context, ""boodle jails"" were jails in the United States, predominantly during the nineteenth century, in which a tramp or hobo could make an illicit arrangement with a law enforcement officer to stay in the jail without being an actual prisoner. For example, between 1893 and 1899, the Welsh tramp-poet W. H. Davies took advantage of this"
"sterling, GBX (sometimes GBp), when listing stock prices. A common slang term for the pound sterling or pound is ""quid"", which is singular and plural, except in the common phrase ""Quids in!"". The term may have come via Italian immigrants from ""scudo"", the name for a number of coins used in Italy until the 19th century; or from Latin 'quid' via the common phrase ""quid pro quo"", literally, ""what for what"", or, figuratively, ""An equal exchange or substitution"". Since decimalisation in 1971 (see Decimal Day), the pound has been divided into 100 pence (until 1981 described on the coinage as"
"is no longer in common use. The ten thousand colones note is also known as ""un puma"", referring to the puma shown on one of its faces. Costa Rican colón The colón (named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish) is the currency of Costa Rica. The plural is ""colones"". The ISO 4217 code is CRC. 500 colones is unofficially called a dollar in some places throughout Costa Rica, owing to its similar value to the US dollar. The symbol for the colón is a capital letter ""C"" crossed by two diagonal strokes. The symbol is encoded at"
"is an old monetary unit of one pound and one shilling, now £1.05). Today, the trophy is officially known as the ""America's Cup"" after the 1851 winning yacht, and is affectionately called the ""Auld Mug"" by the sailing community. It is inscribed with names of the yachts that competed for it, and has been modified twice by adding matching bases to accommodate more names. In 1851 Commodore John Cox Stevens, a charter member of the fledgling New York Yacht Club (NYYC), formed a six-person syndicate to build a yacht with intention of taking her to England and making some money"
"Costa Rican colón The colón (named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish) is the currency of Costa Rica. The plural is ""colones"". The ISO 4217 code is CRC. 500 colones is unofficially called a dollar in some places throughout Costa Rica, owing to its similar value to the US dollar. The symbol for the colón is a capital letter ""C"" crossed by two diagonal strokes. The symbol is encoded at and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards using the keystrokes +. The colón sign is not to be confused with , or with"
"""groat"", although the coin of that name was withdrawn in the 19th century. A sixpenny bit was a ""tanner"", known in Australia as a ""zack"". One shilling was a ""bob"", and a pound a ""nicker"" or a ""quid"". The term ""quid"" is said to originate from the Latin phrase quid pro quo. A pound note was also sometimes called simply ""a note"" (e.g., ""You owe me 50 notes""). A ten-shilling note was sometimes known as ""half a bar"". A two-shillings-and-sixpence piece, in use until the introduction of decimal currency, was known as ""half a crown"" or ""a half crown"". Crown"